An Egg Is Just One Cell

2022-03-11

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One of Earth's biggest cells is one you're probably really familiar with.

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- Cell: the smallest unit that can execute all the activities required for life

- Egg: the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an embryo develops until it can survive on its own

- Fertilization: the union of male and female gametes during sexual reproduction to form a zygote

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REFERENCES

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Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al. (2002). Eggs. Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th edition). New York: Garland Science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26842/

Gilbert S. (2013). ""Early Development in Birds"". Developmental Biology (10th ed.). Sunderland: Sinauer Associates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10070/

Marshall WF, Young KD, Swaffer M, Wood E. (2012) What determines cell size? BMC Biololgy 10: 101. https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-10-101

Starck J (2020) Morphology of the avian yolk sac, Journal of Morphology 282:7, (959-972). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmor.21262